Scribus 1.4.2
The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of Scribus 1.4.2.
While this is mostly a bugfix release, it also adds an often requested feature, namely true cross-platform spellchecking. Until Scribus 1.4.1, the spellchecker worked only on Linux and UNIX systems, including manually built versions on Mac OS X. As of version 1.4.2, Scribus provides a modern spellchecker, similar to LibreOffice and based on Hunspell, which should be easily portable across all supported platforms. Scribus 1.4.2 will detect existing dictionaries already installed by hunspell packages or LibreOffice, on the system it has been installed onto. Additional dictionaries are downloadable directly from within the Scribus Preferences via freedesktop.org. The spellchecker now also works within the Story Editor.
Scribus 1.4.2 is also the first release of Scribus that is available as a 64-bit version for Microsoft Windows. These new versions allow Scribus to access all available memory provided by modern 64-bit computers, which improves performance when working on large documents. The 64-bit version will run on Windows Vista 64-bit, Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit, and Microsoft Windows 8 64-bit.
In addition, Scribus 1.4.2 comes with updates to the Online Help, as well as updated translations.
Most important changes
New spellchecker based on Hunspell
64-bit versions available for Windows Vista, 7 and 8
Documentation updates (including translations)
Updated UI translations
A security update for the Python Scripter (Windows)
Fixes to issues with file locations and file names (Windows)
Fixes and an enhancement to the Scripter
Additional build options
Major and minor bugfixes, ranging from crashes in some corner cases to usability improvements
A complete list of all changes is available under: http://bugs.scribus.net/changelog_page.php?version_id=84
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.